The United States issued a journey advisory for the complete Quintana Roo, citing “crime and kidnapping” as potential threats within the state. However, based on Cancun officers, overseas governments and the media overstate their reviews.
Jesus Almaguer Salazar, president of the Hotel Association of Cancun, Puerto Morelos and Isla Mujeres, one of the crucial necessary and politically important organizations within the metropolis, expressed his disappointment with the best way the media exaggerates the circumstances, in response to the latest unfair classification of Quintana Roo as a harmful state for kidnappings.
As he notes, crimes do occur, together with the extremely uncommon incidence of an abduction, however they principally happen outdoors of Cancun, away from the closely patrolled municipal seashores and Hotel Zone. Salazar observes how media shops “manage” breaking information as if they’d an influence on in style tourism locations.
In order to forestall fearmongering, Salazar concludes, information have to be “contextualized.”
Is Cancun secure to go to?
The Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System of Mexico has famous that between January and September of this yr, just one kidnapping sufferer was reported in all of Quintana Roo, which is considerably lower than earlier estimates, which had been already low.
The Mexican authorities requested the United States to be extra “precise” in sending out warnings as a result of they seem to not precisely replicate the state of affairs on the bottom. Although the nation has requested for extra transparency in conducting threat assessments, the request continues to be ignored.
Mexico, the most well-liked seaside vacation spot for Americans, is extra tightly managed than its rivals in Latin America or some other nation overseas as a result of every state in Mexico has a special threat ranking, making tragic incidents simpler and faster to identify. In comparability, France as a complete has a nationwide alert stage.
With a Level 2 journey warning this fall, Cancun and Quintana Roo stay among the many most secure trip locations in Mexico. The 4 European nations sharing the identical journey advisory are France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
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